At the Court of Appeal in Toulouse, in the south France, The case of a 46-year-old man who drugged his wife to sexually assault her is on trial, a case that has attracted attention from the acclaimed trial of Dominic Pelicowho also drugged his wife, but only to have her raped by himself and by unknown men at his instigation.
The 46-year-old man is accused of sexually assaulting his wife between 2019 and 2022, after first drugging her with Zolpidem, a powerful hypnotic, and filming the assaults.
In the first instance, he was sentenced in June to four years in prison by the court for “sexual assault through the introduction of a substance into the victim” and “invasion of privacy” through the recording of images.
“My client is a person who has been a victim for years of physical and psychological violence by his own wife,” Neli Mazenti, his lawyer, said before the hearing, explaining to AFP that the woman “admitted to hitting him.”
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During his testimony to the court, the man He said he “initially” ordered the sleeping pills to “stay calm” at home.
He then admitted to undressing and groping his sleeping wife. “I didn’t check anything in the house,
“It doesn’t compare to the Peliko case”
According to his lawyer, beyond the common point of chemical submission, his client’s case cannot be compared to the so-called Mazan rape case currently pending in the Vaucluse court (south of France), where Dominique Pelico is accused of having drugged his wife with anxiolytics and then raped her and encouraged dozens of men to rape her.
The defendant tried in Toulouse “unfortunately found this means to try to have physical contact” with his wife, according to Mazenti, for whom “there was no rape, there was no attempted rape, just beatings”.
The events onewere revealed in the context of a trial of defendants in another case, the rape of a prostitute for which the 46-year-old man was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
His wife reported feeling unwell, found traces of prescriptions for sleeping pills in her husband’s email, and filed a lawsuit against him in the spring of 2023.
Source: AMPE
